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Aztecs
The Aztecs were active in Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries. They are most famous for their practice of human sacrifice.
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What did Aztec warriors look like?
The Aztec empire was known for its fierce warriors. Aztec warriors would often decorate themselves with feathers and other ornaments.
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There are a number of things that made the Aztecs unique. They had a complex religion which was marked by interaction with deities and their main source of food was farming.
What Aztecs sell in their market?
food.
This meant, amaranth (a grain), maize, rabbits, wild (bear) garlic, small birds, potatoes (!), and paw-paw. Let's not forget cocoa beans... ie. chocolate! They used cocoa beans as currency.
You could also buy brightly colored cords, for clothing, binding and accounting, as they used knotted cords for keeping track of numbers and making lists.
Probably also cloth, blankets, sandals, and feathers. The Aztecs were really fond of feathers for decoration and high fashion.
They probably also sold statues of deities and these little ceramic doo-dads that you could cement to altars in the home that represented various deities and sacred days on the calendar. The result was a unique mosaic of prayer on the surface of a personal altar.
They did lots of pottery, so I'd imagine it would be in a market, too. They were also skilled in making objects out of gold and jade, and like for the Chinese, Jade was lucky.
I'm not sure if gold and jade objects were available for any but the nobility, as they had ceremonial traits. However they had other jewelry, mostly in silver and copper.
If you were hungry, you could buy tamales and tacos... though only the soft shell kind, that I know of. The tamales would have had rabbit or turkey in them, and the tacos would have had tadpoles or edible insects in them. Rather different cuisine than we have!
If you needed a utility knife, you could buy one of those, too... but the blade was made out of a volcanic glass we call obsidian. The color was usually black, though gray, green blue and even orange have been found rarely. This would have been hand knapped (chipped) by a very patient person. This blade is many times sharper than you could get with good flint. A man in the modern day actually knapped a set of working surgeons blades for his surgeon to use during his heart surgery! They were sharper than a razor blade.
Modern day Mexican city originally founded by Aztecs?
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What city was built by the Aztecs in the 1300's?
The city built in during that time by the Aztecs, was called Tenochtitla'n
What festivals did the Aztecs celebrate?
The one I know is the "Origins of the Day of the Dead".
The ancient Aztec Day or Days of the Dead was the target of systematic attempts at assimilation by the Christian conquerors of Latin America. However, unlike the Celtic festival Samhain, the Day of the Dead was more successful in resisting these efforts at incorporation. The precise origins of "Los Dias de los Muertos" are lost in the shadows of prehistory. Possibly it goes back to the Olmecs, a civilization of south-central Mexico but dominant throughout the region from 1200 to 400 BC. The Olmecs are the progenitors of many Mesoamerican or Middle-American cultures, like the Aztec, Maya, Toltecs, and Zapotec, Mixtec, etc. We can more clearly trace the festival to the Aztecs, who governed the region from the 14th to the 16th century. They called themselves Mexicas (hence "Mexico"). They commemorated the dead for the entire month of Miccailhuitontli (end of July - beginning of August), which was presided over by the goddess Mictecacihuatl, the Lady of the Dead, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. It was a joyous occasion, much like it is now.
What was daily life like for the Aztecs?
daily life for the Aztecs was building houses and hunting and making clothes and having sex
What factors contributed to the Spanish victory over the Aztecs?
The Spanish had a better well trained soldiers, weapons, armor, and one thing called the smallpox.
On what was the Aztec city of tenotchitlan built?
Tenochtitlan was built on top of a lake. The Aztecs used a complex series of waterways to keep the water from damaging the buildings.
Where and when did the Incas create their empire?
The Incas created their empire in 1200 AD and it ended when the Spanish took over in 1535 AD. They made their empire in Peru.
Why were the spanish able to defeat the Aztec?
The Spanish had horses and guns while the Aztecs still used swards and did not use domesticated animals, but the reason they were able to defeat the Aztec was because the Aztecs suffered many deaths from disease.
Did the Aztec invent the calendar?
yes .
The Aztec's did have a calendar, but the one we use came from the Romans and is called the Julian Calendar after Julius Caesar.
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The Weeping Woman
(La Llorona)
by Anthony duran
This is a story that the old ones have been telling to children for hundreds of years. It is a sad tale, but it lives strong in the memories of the people, and there are many who swear that it is true.
Long years ago in a humble little village there lived a fine looking girl named Maria Some say she was the most beautiful girl in the world! And because she was so beautiful, Maria thought she was better than everyone else.
As Maria grew older, her beauty increased And her pride in her beauty grew too When she was a young woman, she would not even look at the young men from her village. They weren't good enough for her! "When I marry," Maria would say, "I will marry the most handsome man in the world."
And then one day, into Maria's village rode a man who seemed to be just the one she had been talking about. He was a dashing young ranchero, the son of a wealthy rancher from the southern plains. He could ride like a Comanche! In fact, if he owned a horse, and it grew tame, he would give it away and go rope a wild horse from the plains. He thought it wasn't manly to ride a horse if it wasn't half wild.
He was handsome! And he could play the guitar and sing beautifully. Maria made up her mind-that was, the man for her! She knew just the tricks to win his attention.
If the ranchero spoke when they met on the pathway, she would turn her head away. When he came to her house in the evening to play his guitar and serenade her, she wouldn't even come to the window. She refused all his costly gifts. The young man fell for her tricks. "That haughty girl, Maria, Maria! " he said to himself. "I know I can win her heart. I swear I'll marry that girl."
And so everything turned out as Maria planned. Before long, she and the ranchero became engaged and soon they were married. At first, things were fine. They had two children and they seemed to be a happy family together. But after a few years, the ranchero went back to the wild life of the prairies. He would leave town and be gone for months at a time. And when he returned home, it was only to visit his children. He seemed to care nothing for the beautiful Maria. He even talked of setting Maria aside and marrying a woman of his own wealthy class.
As proud as Maria was, of course she became very angry with the ranchero. She also began to feel anger toward her children, because he paid attention to them, but just ignored her.
One evening, as Maria was strolling with her two children on the shady pathway near the river, the ranchero came by in a carriage. An elegant lady sat on the seat beside him. He stopped and spoke to his children, but he didn't even look at Maria. He whipped the horses on up the street.
When she saw that, a terrible rage filled Maria, and it all turned against her children. And although it is sad to tell, the story says that in her anger Maria seized her two children and threw them into the river! But as they disappeared down the stream, she realized what she had done! She ran down the bank of the river, reaching out her arms to them. But they were long gone.
The next morning, a traveler brought word to the villagers that a beautiful woman lay dead on the bank of the river. That is where they found Maria, and they laid her to rest where she had fallen.
But the first night Maria was in the grave, the villagers heard the sound of crying down by the river. It was not the wind, it was La Llorona crying. "Where are my children?" And they saw a woman walking up and down the bank of the river, dressed in a long white robe, the way they had dressed Maria for burial. On many a dark night they saw her walk the river bank and cry for her children. And so they no longer spoke of her as Maria. They called her La Llorona, the weeping woman. And by that name she is known to this day. Children are warned not to go out in the dark, for, La Llorona might snatch them and never return them.
